Basement Crawl Out Today on PS4

Right everyone, this is it. Basement Crawl is landing on PS4 February 25th, which means that you can grab the game on PlayStation Store after it updates this afternoon. We have been pretty secretive about what we have been planning over the past few weeks, but just stay right there because it’s time to let you guys know what’s up.

First though, a quick recap for those of you who don’t know what this game that looks kinda like Bomberman on an acid trip is.

Basement Crawl is multiplayer, PS4-exclusive, fast paced, grid based death. It’s inspired by the likes of Bomberman and Spy vs. Spy, as well as more than a few horror movies. It features 4-player local multiplayer, 8 players online, or a mix of the two so you and a few friends play locally against a group of strangers online.

So, what have we been doing the past month? We’ve been taking feedback we got from journalists about Basement Crawl and building on it. We changed the way bombs react when kicked or when they crash into another player to make it a more fluid and balanced system. We also worked on the the game’s aesthetics — the feedback we recieved was positive, especially for the minamilistic on-screen display, but we did have a complaint from one journalist (I’m looking at you Chris Bratt) about the leaderboards covering the entire screen when viewed. We addressed this by adding a small indicator on the screen, eliminating the need for a large scoreboard.

I know you guys probably have questions about the game — details I might have missed, what the best bomb or power up is, and more about what you’ll get for your hard-earned $9.99. So feel free to ask away, I will be lurking around the comments and will answer any questions you guys have.

I’m actually pretty excited about getting this today, looks like it has the potential to be a great online game for a group of friends late at night. My only worry is that there are currently zero (0) reviews for Basement Crawl thus far and it’s noon on launch day… Can we get some impressions/review copies out in to the wild please?
Other than that, I’m ready to play this and Thief later tonight despite the reviews, I absolutely loved Knack aka Crash PS4.

Hey buddy,
We will be announcing more about out partnerships in the coming days, we are really excited about this but we can’t talk about it just yet. Stay tuned and you will get an announcement very soon. Sorry this is a bit vague but as soon as we can go public we will.

Hey Zod,
Yeah this is of an old build of the game, we took what Chris Bratt said on board and made changes to the game based on what he said. He is pretty happy that we took his advice. Also, we listen to what you guys are saying in forums and stuff so we are open to changes being made to the game depending on what you want to see, so let us know :)

Questions:
1. does the game support 3D?
2. if you have no friends to play locally, can you still play? (forever alone) i.e. are there AI characters?
3. are there any plans for DLC in the future? Characters/maps/modes etc

We will be doing updates and DLC we are really going to focus on expanding and improving on this game after release. I think that supporting the game and the players that chose to drop 10 dollars on a game we made is the least of what we could do. But as of right now, there are no AI bots. Multiplayer only.

You guys said you’d put up a gameplay video almost a month ago, so now all we have is random youtubers. That’s not a solid way to market a new IP that has the feel of a game that’s precious to many of us.

I just remembered the ‘exciting partnership’ talk from a few months ago. If I buy this today it won’t be announced as next months free PS4 game in a week will it? That would be a terrible move from a PR perspective.

Hey we will be talking about our partnerships very soon, we just want to get past launch and get all the bugs worked out first. Give you guys a solid good game before we start worrying about throwing extra stuff in the game. BUT, with that said, do expect more info on this partnership soon :)

Is there any reason I cannot join one of the many online games? I see about 10 lobbies, each with anywhere from 2/8 to 7/8 people in them. I click one, which takes me to an empty list and it says “waiting for the game to start…”

With no offline play whatsoever, you need to have your act together with your online. I know it just came out, but I’m this close to trying to get a refund from Sony since your game (presently) doesn’t work at all.

I cant seem To play global multiplayer…there is like 10 rooms and i cant get in…it keeps me in a waiting screen for like 20 min and meh wtf is this game…i am About to call Sony and get a refund Just don t buy it…or fix it…Make it playable

this is ridiculous there isn’t offline single player (bots) and you can’t get into online games. if they add bots and give the ability to actually play online id recommend, until then don’t waste your money.

Wow!! Thanks for the complete waste of $10 Bloober! You guys really created something special here by taking a step in a horrible direction. Maybe if you created a single player vs bots option, people might actually be able to play the game instead of sitting in ridiculous loading screen pattern. I tried for an entire half hour straight to launch into a game and no luck at all. I’ve checked for gameplay footage from other users and it was the same thing. I can’t even convince people on my friends list to bother throwing money at this waste of space. Updates needed big time, if you’re gonna copy bomberman then at least go with the simplistic single player style that made the game such a success.

How dare you! i just bought this awful game and its broken! the lobbys dont work and i think this is one of the worst games
i bought since the nes. I trusted this game. NO ONE should buy this game. Please save your money!

This game isn’t good. I can’t believe this is what $10 gets you! How can you have matches of 8 players with only 4 character types? I spend most of my time playing trying to figure out where I am on the map! By the time I do I have already died a handful of times without even knowing about it. This is infuriating!

Hey we are aware of the bugs and we will are working to get them fixed right now. We were suprised by them at launch since both ourselves and Sony tested the game, wthout getting any problems, before launch. With that said we will iron out these wrinkles and then start to work on giving you extra content :)